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Cygnus is typically launched using its parent company's Antares rocket from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, however it is able to fly on other launch vehicles. After the failure of an Antares rocket destroyed Cygnus CRS Flight 3 and damaged the Wallops facility, two Cygnus missions were launched with Atlas V rockets in 2015 and 2016.
The Antares (rocket) made its maiden flight lifting a payload mass simulator to low Earth orbit (LEO) on 21 April 2013. [31] On 18 September 2013, Antares successfully launched a Cygnus spacecraft to rendezvous with the International Space Station.
Orbital Sciences Corp. has reportedly signed a contract with Russia's NPO Energomash to supply 60 new built RD-181 engines for the Antares rocket. [26] While Antares/AJ-26 is not flying and the follow-on launch vehicle is in development and test, Orbital is shopping to purchase launch services for its Cygnus capsule to ISS cargo runs ...
"Through our collaboration, we will first develop a fully domestic version of our Antares rocket, the Antares 330, for Cygnus space station commercial resupply services, followed by an entirely ...
Antares 230 MARS, LP-0A Cygnus (enhanced) CRS NG-10 John Young: 3,416 kg (7,531 lb) LEO (ISS) Northrop Grumman: NASA (CRS) Success Largest number of satellites launched on a single rocket (108). Cygnus NG-10, CHEFsat 2, Kicksat 2, 104 Sprite Chipsats (deployed from Kicksat 2), MYSAT 1. 10 April 17, 2019 20:46 Antares 230 MARS, LP-0A Cygnus ...
Antares (/ æ n ˈ t ɑː r iː z /), known during early development as Taurus II, is an American expendable medium-lift launch vehicle developed and built by Orbital Sciences Corporation (later Orbital ATK and Northrop Grumman) with financial support from NASA under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program awarded in February 2008, alongside the company's automated cargo ...
The launch agreement with SpaceX coincides with Northrop climbing out of a months-long predicament with its workhorse Antares rocket, whose Russian-made engines were cut off from the United States ...
Orbital Sciences first launched the Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on 21 April 2013 with a test payload. [14] Orbital Sciences completed the Cygnus Orb-D1 demonstration flight on 29 September 2013, and the operational Cygnus CRS Orb-1 was launched 9 January 2014. [15] [16] [17] [18]